Ben: Sonship and Jewish Mysticism

While many aspects of Sonship have been analyzed in books on Judaism, this book constitutes the first attempt to address the category of Sonship in Jewish mystical literature as a whole - a category much more vast than ever imagined. Idel's aim is to poin

Moshe Idel is Max Cooper Professor of Jewish Thought at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Preface	p. viii
Abbreviations	p. x
Introduction	p. 1
Righteousness, Theophorism and Sonship in Rabbinic and Heikhalot Literatures	p. 108
The Son (of God) in Ashkenazi Forms of Esotericism	p. 194
Son as an Intellectual/Eschatological Entity in Ecstatic Kabbalah	p. 276
The Sexualized Son of God in the Theosophical-Theurgical Kabbalah	p. 377
Christological and Non-Christological Sons of God in the Italian Renaissance and their Reverberations	p. 507
The Son of God as a Righteous in Hasidism	p. 531
Concluding Remarks	p. 585
Enoch the Righteous, and was there a Cult of Enoch/Metatron in the Middle Ages?	p. 645
Bibliography	p. 671
Index	p. 697
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